[ale] Saving electricity with Linux

[Chuck Payne]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 3:56 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> So far the giant cloud systems and super computers run Linux. And those
> monsters suck down power like it free. In fact, that's why datacenters get
> built where they do - cheaper power.
>
> In terms of efficiency, think FLOPS/Watt, the compute style matters. Is it
> raw number crunching or IO heavy? Those GPUs are very amperage hungry but
> flops/watt are more efficient than a general purpose cpu. AMD still
> outpaces Intel in the cpu flops/watt race.
>
> I don't see Microsoft servers being the beast behind the datacenter power
> hogs. I do see almost all aspects of datacenter power, cooling, and access
> management being run by microsoft servers. But that's 4-5 servers in a
> datacenter.
>
> Linux won. I got that car tag a long time ago.
>
> LINUX1
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2024, 1:07 PM Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:43:39PM -0400, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
>> > Datacenters may use as much as 9% of total U.S. electricity in six
>> years.
>> > Home computers use some too.
>> >
>> > Since Linux uses roughly half the electricity as Windows, switching to
>> Linux in the
>> > data centers will save a lot of electricity.  Get the treehuggers to
>> champion this.
>>
>> The overwhelming majority of the systems in datacenters are already
>> running Linux.  So what you're saying is that, Linux is, by
>> itself, responsible for nearly 9% of total US electrical consumption. [1]
>>
>> ...And I should point out that if you put Linux vs Windows on modern
>> laptop harwdare, the odds are high that Windows actually uses less, both
>> when on-but-otherwise-idle and in a suspended state.
>>
>> (This is even more true when comparing Linux vs MacOS on Apple hardware)
>>
>> [1] Excluding cooling, which can be up to half of that energy usage..
>>
>>  - Solomon
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So fun fact. Mansell Datacenter that Cox own is setup in such away they
were process power that Southern was buying back.
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